After the Second World War, there emerged a new generation of composers, who sought to stretch the boundaries of music history, and find new and exciting styles and forms. Browse our sheet music and scores, take a look at our Modern Classical Music, and explore the wide world of contemporary music with Stretta Music today!
Dodecaphony or Serialism is the use of the twelve semi-tones as the harmonic and structural basis, rather than the traditional harmonic key structure which governed classical music until the turn of the twentieth century. Arnold Schoenberg was the father of twelve-tone composition in the 1930s. Moving into the post-war era, all dodecaphonic or serial musical parameters, including note lengths, dynamics and even timbres were set in rows. After 1948, the Darmstadt “holiday courses” became the centre of Dodecaphony or Serialism for almost a decade. Despite the mathematical and logical basis, twelve-tone composition still produced many highly emotional works such as Luigi Nono’s Il Canto sospeso.
As the technical and electronic possibilities continued to grow and thrive after the war, the first studio solely dedicated to electronic music was founded in Cologne in 1951 by Herbert Eimert. Important electronic music composers were Edgar Varese, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Ernst Krenek, Maurice Kagel, Luciano Berio and Iannis Xenakis, who was also an assistant to the architect Le Corbusier.
Aleatoric comes from the Latin “alea”, meaning dice. Aleatoric composition leaves elements of the music to chance. The American composer John Cage was the first to experiment with aleatoric music, and many others followed, in particular K. Stockhausen, P. Boulez, W. Lutosławski.
Soundscape composition plays with sense and emotion, it uses long drawn musical landscapes to give the listener time to recognise and experience the music in a whole new way. The most important compositions include Atmosphères and Lontano by György Ligeti. Other works of this type were created by Luigi Nono, Krzysztof Penderecki, Iannis Xenakis.
Minimalism also came to Europe from the USA. Minimalism uses repetitive, wide blocks of sound, without strong contrasts or dramatic changes. It is in the repetition, with gradual, small changes, that the minimalist effect is achieved. The pioneers of minimalism in the 1960s were American composers Philip Glass, John Adams, Le Monte Young, Terry Riley and Steve Reich. They were followed in Europe by Henryk Górecki and Arvo Pärt.
for violoncello solo
for: Cello
Music score
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Russische Klavierwerke für Kinder und Jugendliche
for: Piano
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Notre-Dame de Rocamadour
for: Women's choir (smeza), organ
Organ score
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Grado Superior
Edición Ibérica
for: Classical guitar
Music score
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Anthem (from Sunrise Mass)
for mixed chorus (strings ad lib)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; string quartet ad lib.
Choir score
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for: Organ
Music score
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for: Piano
Score
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for: Bassoon, piano
Book
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Russische Musik der Moderne
for: Cello, orchestra
Study score
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for: für Kammerorchester
Studienpartitur
Item no.: 147359
für Altblockflöte solo
for: Recorder
Music score
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Klassik
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 176096
GeWV 267
for: 2 treble recorders (duet)
Ensemble score
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An den Oktober
Russische Musik der Moderne
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 108877
Special Edition John Cage's 100th birthday
including all published editions of 4'33''
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Score
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Edition Schott
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Music score
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Score, Set of parts
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Prüfungsliteratur
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Score
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Exempla nova 242
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Score
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Organ score
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for trumpet and orchestra
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Complete Edition (score, organ part and 12 string parts)
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Score, Solo part, Single parts
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Chamber Version
study score, archive copy
for: Violin, chamber orchestra
Study score
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for: Piano
Music score
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The Piano Version
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Music score
Item no.: 736294
Le son dans les arts plastiques contemporains
Book
Item no.: 1563615
for: Piano
Music score
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for: Piano
Music score
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Edition Schott
for: 2 treble recorders (duet)
Ensemble score
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aus "Polnisches Requiem"
for: Sopran solo, gemischter Chor (SATB) und Orchester
Study score
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from the opera "The Ratter"
for: Clarinet, percussion
Score, part
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(Forest Ranger)
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Choir score
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Cantata (Brieftexte europäischer Widerstandskämpfer)
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Study score
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for oboe, violin, viola and cello
for: Oboe, violin, viola, cello
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Song Cycle for medium female voice and piano
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Music score
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Version for Organ by Heribert Breuer
for: Organ
Music score
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for: Piano
Music score
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(L'Oiseau bleu)
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Music score
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for viola solo
for: Viola
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for: 2 guitars
Ensemble score
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Buch
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Edition Schott
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Piano reduction, solo part
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A Study in Loving
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Studienpartitur Faksimile-Partitur
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Piano Collection
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